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Pile

Backing fabric

Fig. 18.6 The crosscut of a fabric with high-cut pile.

Pile
Cutting line
Pile
Fig. 18.7 Cutting of a fabric with high-cut pile moving the pile aside from the cutting line.

18.4.2 Automated cutting
Automated way fabrics with high-cut pile can be processed by gantry laser cutting sys-
tems (see Section 10.5.1). Contactless laser cutting is performed from the reverse side
of the material keeping it in uncompressed way. Individual strands creating pile of the
fabric remain intact, while laser cuts only backing material in high speed and quality.

Further reading

Vilumsone-Nemes, I., 2012. Industrial Cutting of Textile Materials, first ed. Woodhead
Publishing, Cambridge. ISBN 9780857091345.
Vilumsone-Nemes, I., 2015. Fabric spreading and cutting. In: Nayak, R., Padhye, R. (Eds.),
Garment Manufacturing Technology. Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge. ISBN
9781782422327.
Vilumsone-Nemes, I., 2017. Automation in spreading and cutting. In: Nayak, R., Padhye, R.
(Eds.), Automation in Garment Manufacturing. Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge. ISBN
9780081012116.